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  • noun Plural form of stretch.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stretch.

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Examples

  • *fuse smolders as it simultaneously stretches, stretches, stretches*

    squid tastee, you say… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • “Focus, V.” echoes a voice , different, in the darkness of my mind, disturbing the nervous meditation that is waiting for everyone else to leave the archive library—though the term stretches the normal definition here.

    2009 November | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

  • His Word stretches from the beginning to the end, from the Old Testament to the New, and the electrical current that flows through those lines is the power of God unto salvation.

    Babes with a Beatitude Linda P. Kozar 2009

  • “Focus, V.” echoes a voice , different, in the darkness of my mind, disturbing the nervous meditation that is waiting for everyone else to leave the archive library—though the term stretches the normal definition here.

    Drunken Fiction Kernal | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

  • The unconscious (or perhaps even dead?) statuesque diva of the title stretches across the breadth of the canvas, while the five men attending to her are so seemingly unperturbed that they might as well be unloading a sack of grain from a pickup truck.

    Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • So the 20 minute target time for the highest graded calls somehow has to be met when, for example, what is oddly called London South Area stretches from the pointy tip of Kent across to Weymouth in Dorset.

    “Response Times” Are Back SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • There never are signs warning of potholes, even though certain stretches of some roads, such as the busy Highway 200 between Puerto Vallarta and Bahia de Navidad in particular, always harbour potholes, most of which are obscured by murky shadows cast by forest canopies.

    Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

  • The race for the district — which stretches from the Philadelphia suburbs to the ocean — has been as wacky as it has been tight.

    Races Tighten in New Jersey Lisa Fleisher 2010

  • Report how well does this age, as the skin stretches and the body sags?

    Tattoo in Japan Boing Boing 2009

  • My wonder (not being tattooed) is the obvious one: how well does this age, as the skin stretches and the body sags?

    Tattoo in Japan Boing Boing 2009

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